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You might be wondering where I got the idea for the title of this morning’s article. Well in fact it goes back about 10 years during the US elections when previous US president Obama was at the time a candidate running against the late John McCain, during Obama’s first run for office.

Lord Palmerston once said that “Nations have no permanent friends or allies, they only have permanent interests.” This has never rung true in Whitehall as far as Spain is concerned; but actually it does with Spain, as far as the UK is concerned. Spanish friendships are purely “postizos” and ushered by self interest. Read more

It takes a brave individual to shoulder activism in a small but progressive Gibraltarian society. Many movements are shrewdly cut at the stem to prevent growth of ideas, but it is those who stand firm against such malicious advances who should be given the utmost credit. Read more